Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 10/12/2011

Saturday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Recover small open truck (4-2)

4 Father in twisted braces put down by typist (5-3)

9 Supply Asian motor-racing team (6)

10 Avengers dispersed poisonous vaporous substance (5-3)

12 Play together? (3,2,7)

15 Conifer Lily and I cultivated Oriental accepted (9)

17 Meal not starting to satisfy this man (5)

18 Go in a whirl to find tree in New Zealand (5)

19 Fired up, I had crossed entrance and disputed (9)

20 Maybe for each it’s an exciting experience (12)

24 Desist when holiday is cancelled (5,3)

25 Orbits round restaurant! (6)

26 Make delicate adjustments to superior melody (4-4)

27 Colourful prank, cause of infuriation (3,3)

DOWN

1 Most common to be succeeding (10)

2 Rustic fellow citizen (10)

3 One French nail used to unfasten (5)

5 Customary vice trippers overturn (12)

6 Playing boisterously with scrap during potholing (9)

7 Goblin to go up in alongside (4)

8 Charge too much for this light (4)

11 It certainly isn’t poor dirty play (4,5,3)

13 Train with yellow coach (10)

14 ‘Rock-a-Bye Baby’ (6-4)

16 Reconciliation an hour before midday intended to be heard (9)

21 Innocent Anna I ventured to include (5)

22 Symbol of music left (4)

23 Cracker early in the day (4)

Friday’s solution

Across: 1 Subedit, 5 Extinct, 9 Truffle, 10 Tractor, 11 Ascertain, 12 Tibia, 13 Shrug, 15 Designers, 16 Petulance, 18 Solve, 21 Rimed, 22 Far from it, 24 Piloted, 26 On stage, 27 Terrain, 28 Tendons.

Down: 1 Satraps, 2 Bouncer, 3 Defer, 4 The Garden of Eden, 5 Eat one’s heart out, 6 Twa, 7 Notable, 8 Threads, 12 Togas, 14 Gelid, 16 Parapet, 17 Tumbler, 19 Lumbago, 20 Entrees, 23 Resin, 25 Tia.